Cleistocactus sepium

Cleistocactus sepium
	Cleistocactus sepium
Systematics
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Cactus family (Cactaceae)
Subfamily :	Cactoideae
Tribe :	Trichocereeae
Genre :	Cleistocactus
Type :	Cleistocactus sepium
Scientific name
	Cleistocactus sepium
	( Kunth ) FAC Weber ex Rol.-Goss.

Cleistocactus sepium is a species of plant in the genus Cleistocactus from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet sepium means 'from the hoes, fences'.

description

Cleistocactus sepium grows shrubby with mostly little or no branching from the base, prostrate to ascending, light to dark green shoots and reaches heights of 0.5 to 2 meters with a diameter of 3 to 10 centimeters. There are 6 to 18 low, blunt, furrowed ribs . The white or light brown areoles are far apart. The bristly to needle-like thorns are brown, yellowish or blackish and turn gray with age. The 1 to 3 strong central spines are up to 4 centimeters long, the 8 to 10 radial spines up to 1 centimeter long.

The slightly zygomorphic , glowing red flowers are up to 7.5 centimeters long and 3 centimeters in diameter. Your bracts are spread out. The spherical, brownish-green to yellowish-green fruits reach a diameter of up to 5 centimeters.

Distribution, systematics and endangerment

Cleistocactus sepium is distributed in northern and central Ecuador at altitudes of 1500 to 3500 meters. It was first described as Cactus sepium in 1823 by Karl Sigismund Kunth . Robert Roland-Gosselin placed them in the genus Cleistocactus in 1904 .

In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.

proof

literature

Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 124-125 .

Individual evidence

↑ Nova Genera et Species Plantarum . Volume 6, 1823, p. 66, (online) .
^ Bulletin de la Société Centrale d'Agriculture, d'Horticulture et d'Acclimatation de Nice . Volume 44, Number 1, 1904, p. 36.
↑ Cleistocactus sepium in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Loaiza, C., 2011. Retrieved February 22, 2014.

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[1] Nova Genera et Species Plantarum . Volume 6, 1823, p. 66, (online) .

[2] Bulletin de la Société Centrale d'Agriculture, d'Horticulture et d'Acclimatation de Nice . Volume 44, Number 1, 1904, p. 36.

[3] Cleistocactus sepium in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: Loaiza, C., 2011. Retrieved February 22, 2014.